Any company can measure its main financial data, said Charles "Cappy" Leland, a partner of Edmond-based Performance Dashboard. The key, though, is to measure how that information links to a company's goals and objectives on an annual or five-year plan.
Leland and Thomas A. Newman, another Performance Dashboard partner, have developed a management model they say gives companies a competitive edge by doing just that. The model was designed to create an understanding of internal culture, operations and employees -- something Leland, Newman and Performance Dashboard's other partners, Jon Friesen and Terry Taylor, agree companies must have in order to gain that competitive …